Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Mayors of all French cities have been again ordered to prepare lists of all Germans in their distric 6, for the use of the Ministry of the Inter for.
 During the f, stival at Rome four bombs were thrown in front of the Vatican. One en- tered the Papal barracks.
 A Vienna Chemist shot his wife and two children at Baumgarten, and afterward took his own life. The cause of the act is not known.
 King John of Abyssnia is moving two armies toward Massowah, one of which is said to be commanded by Europ an officers.
 The Nile is still rising, and the country is flooded for many miles north of Cairo. Forty five hundred acres 't sugar cane and 1,0O0 acres of cereals at Aboroorad are submerged.
 The story is confirmed that after the exe- cution of the murderer Pranzlni & certain po- lice offc1al obtained portion of the murder CTS skin from an attendant at the Medical School and had it converted into two purses, which he presented to other police officials as souvenirs All concerned in the matter have been dismissed.
 It is rumored that Count Schuvaloff, the Russian Ambassador at Berlin, has resigned, because of efailure of the Czar and Emperor William to meet.
 Next spring the Port of Cronstadt will be closed to merchant vessels and all ships must load and unload in the new maritime harbor
 There were B, 5so more births than deaths in France ill 1886.
 Contrary to statements in the English papers, King Leopold's visit to London has no connection with the fshe ies question. It is believed that the King real object is to get together funds to cover a Congo loan of 80,- 900 OOOf of the issue which was authorized at the beginning of the present year by the Bel gian Parliament.
 Fifty thousands inhabitants of Messina have fled from that city on account of cholera.
 Lord Randolph Churchill, addressing 3 meeting of farmers at York, said the present As politician he had not grain of comfort. to offer them. The British farmer growing wheat, he said, did not seem to know when he was beaten. He foresaw nothing that was likely to cause rise in the price of wheat suf- fcient to afford profit to the grower.
 Another great trial of Nihilists is about to begin at St. Petersburg. The prisoners in- clude fifteen army officers
 The Woermans of Germany, who have . factory in Cameroons, are about to start line of steamships between Hamburg, Cameroons and Zanzibar. They will receive 8 Govern ,nent subsidy. The German Lloyds will start 6 new line to Alden and Zanzibar.
 A petroleum spring which rises to height of 15O feet has flooded the Balakhan country, near Baku.
 A son of NJ. Schnaebele, the French com missionary who was arrested last April, has been arrested and imprisoned by the German authorities for crossing the frontier near Cheminot and affixing reasonable placard, bearing the tricolor of France, upon tree by the roadside. Young Schnaebele is 16 years old.
 The Spanish settlement Rio Gro, West Ar rica, has proved a flasco. There is trsde there and no prospect of any. The colony will probably be abandoned.
 The Cologne Gazette says that Germany will henceforth be independent of Russia. Unless the latt country makes fresh ap- Emperors will be dissolved, and the dissolu- ton vi not be followed by Russian-German alliance.
 Eight hundred familieshave been made destitute by the recent floods of the Nile. Property has been damaged to the extent of $2, 500, 900.
 An Irish seaman named Fitzgerald died on the British war ship Tourmaline on her voyage from Turks Island t) Montreal. He was ironed and placed in close confinement for some trifing nlisdemeanor, and perished Of suffocation in his cell.
 Some women, unobserved by the police, distributed So,OOO Socialistic pamphlets about the streets of Berlin.
 The preliminary agreements with reference to the projected tunnel through the Simplon Mountain have been signed. The tunnel will open in Itali n territory. The Swiss and Italian Governments each contribute 15, ,OOO,- 900 francs.
 Tt is reported that the Sultan of Turkey is about to visit Berlin to confer with Emperor William. e.
 It is said that the cholera epidemic in 1ta}y is much more serious than the official re- ports would indicate, the authorities striving to conceal the extent of it's ravages. In Rome an average of forty cases occur daily.